Neal Stephenson's new epic starts big and gets bigger. Critic Jason Sheehan says that while the book can bog down in details, if the world really... "The moon blew up with no warning and with no ...

But in the 40 years since, this assumption has begun to seem more and more problematic. Once we had reached the moon and the space race was won, the fantastic expense and danger of space travel became ...

Stephenson, the bestselling author of Anathem, Reamde, and Cryptonomicon, is also a respected technologist and futurist, having been the first employee at Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin and spent seven years ...

Science fiction author Neal Stephenson is not a fan of social media. In his 2015 book “Seveneves,” almost all humans die after the moon disintegrates and Earth is destroyed. And even the last humans ...

Yep, that's pretty much the core of it. The guy who went to get the core of the comet created enough waves, and he was just your typical billionaire-with-a-space-program. The waves caused by Julia ...

"The moon blew up with no warning and with no apparent reason." That's the beginning of Neal Stephenson's newest epic, Seveneves. And in terms of opening hooks, it's up there. I mean, he isn't ...